Rebecca J. Rosen

Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.

See the Destruction of New Jersey's Coastline on an Interactive Map

See the Destruction of New Jersey's Coastline on an Interactive Map

Aerial photos from NOAA of a devastated state More »

Will Sandy Change How We Talk About Climate Change?

Will Sandy Change How We Talk About Climate Change?

The outlook is not good. More »

The Veracity of Video

The Veracity of Video

Fake Sandy photos are a dime a dozen, but video footage is tougher to manipulate, and therefore more reliable. More »

Give Thanks for Goretex: The Rain Gear of Yore

Give Thanks for Goretex: The Rain Gear of Yore

Are your feet wet? Perhaps you need some "rainy-day shoes from China-land." More »

The Complaints You've Made About Sandy-Hyping on Twitter and TV, E.B. White Made About Radio in 1954

The Complaints You've Made About Sandy-Hyping on Twitter and TV, E.B. White Made About Radio in 1954

The hyperventilation of the emergency news cycle was not born with CNN or Twitter. More »

As the East Coast Waits, NASA Watches: The Most Recent Picture of Sandy From Space

As the East Coast Waits, NASA Watches: The Most Recent Picture of Sandy From Space

This thing is huge. More »

What If We Didn't Know Hurricane Sandy Was Coming?

What If We Didn't Know Hurricane Sandy Was Coming?

The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead. More »

Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the Oldest Playable American Recording

Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter From the Oldest Playable American Recording

Computer analysis of a piece of foil reveals audio captured by a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. More »

Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense

Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense

And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward More »

1 Picture, 9,000 Megapixels, 84 Million Stars

1 Picture, 9,000 Megapixels, 84 Million Stars

The VISTA telescope in northern Chile had compiled the largest catalog of the stars swirling around the core of our galaxy. More »

Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets

Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets

A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets we walk along every day. More »

Planetfall: A New Anthology of Our Expeditions Across the Solar System

Planetfall: A New Anthology of Our Expeditions Across the Solar System

Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: Highlights from the last decade of space photography More »

Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Twitter Account in Germany

Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Twitter Account in Germany

When should a transnational social-media company respect the laws of the land and when should they ignore them? More »

A Grand Finale: Time-Lapse Video of Endeavour's Last Mission

A Grand Finale: Time-Lapse Video of Endeavour's Last Mission

Never has a trip across Los Angeles looked so beautiful. More »

A Guy Who *Saw* Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956 That Is Now on YouTube

A Guy Who *Saw* Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956 That Is Now on YouTube

On a 1956 game show, a man appeared who had been present at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. More »

Abe Lincoln's Ultraslick, Obama-like Social Media Campaign

Abe Lincoln's Ultraslick, Obama-like Social Media Campaign

A satirical site is asking for your 15 cents to support the Lincoln-Johnson ticket -- "less than the cost of a green turtle soup!" More »

Has Voyager 1 Entered Interstellar Space?

Has Voyager 1 Entered Interstellar Space?

Definitely maybe More »

This Seemingly Small Explosion on the Sun Is 100,000 Miles Tall

This Seemingly Small Explosion on the Sun Is 100,000 Miles Tall

Sometimes it's easy to forget just how big the sun is. More »

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A Collection of Essays on Gender and Tech From Your Friends at The Atlantic

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! A Collection of Essays on Gender and Tech From Your Friends at The Atlantic

On a day that honors one of the (female) pioneers of computer science, a round-up of our work on women in technology. More »

What Was Reddit Troll Violentacrez Thinking?

What Was Reddit Troll Violentacrez Thinking?

Little of what Violentacrez told Gawker's Adrian Chen can help us understand what makes someone troll. More »

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Finland in World War II

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